Magenta Horizon - Neverending Harvest

It's not that hard , you just suck at the game

this game blows

Magenta Horizon is a fun 2D stylish action game. Gretel moves really fast and there aren't any shops that you can go to that make's your character permanently stronger or more viable apart from charms and items, the move-set and damage that you get from the start is the one you keep for the rest of the game. The items are one of my favorite parts about the game as a whole, especially healing burst. It makes you be more in the offensive when you're on low health and is extremely satisfying to pull off right, doubly so in boss fights. It also always gives you a chance to bounce back after taking many hits and is the item i imagine most players prioritizing the most as obviously stated by the games completion percentage of 2.6 percent, the game is pretty hard. Even at the beginning there are many enemies that have a wide amount of attacks with small windows to avoid. The enemies don't increase in health as much as the game continues but they change by becoming more difficult to recognize the patterns of and have a much wider amount of attacks. [spoiler]Reapers are especially fun to fight, the game is careful never to throw too many at you but when they appear they take the center of you're attention as they are usually the enemy that rushes towards you the most.[/spoiler] The game throws a lot of enemies at you but funnily enough its far easier fighting 100 enemies than it is fighting 4 of the more difficult ones. Because of the healing burst it made me recognize almost all of the early-mid game enemies as tanks of health that can sometimes fight you. It makes the game more interesting to play and it is pretty fun to make the connections as you go [spoiler] such as the purple mech enemies that can be damaged heavily by an electric attack[/spoiler] Sometimes the game throws so many enemies at you that it can be hard to parse what you're actually looking at, I prefer when the game is throwing 4 or 3 heavily difficult enemies at you than 50 enemies, it made me focus more on the enemies move-set and made the battles tenser at a result. Charms are also a huge part of the game and especially fun to equip, some like the one that [spoiler] turns your healing burst into a stun bomb [/spoiler] are incredibly useful, I thought it was fun to experiment and try new combinations but also some felt like they were too useful to ever really replace such as the one previously mentioned. The levels themselves are good too, A lot of times i wanted there to be more recognizable landmarks within each level so I can know where I'm going without requiring a map or being told exactly where to go. Luckily the levels are all pretty small, especially with how fast Gretel moves it isn't very hard to get to anywhere. The platforming sections sadly were a weaker part, they were too sparse and they didn't feel any fun to really pull off. Sometimes there are obstacles that I can just easily skip over because of how fast Gretel moves and it never really gets any more difficult as it goes on. The bosses are a highlight of the game, almost all of them are fun and do something interesting that makes them fun to fight. [spoiler] The reaper bosses we're especially fun to fight as the attacks they did forced you to move just as fast as they did. My favorite was probably Inner nest father, the summoning of the clone and the ray attacks as well as just his appearance made it fun for me to fight him. A lot of times i felt like the bosses didn't change enough as they went on. I wish their were more bosses that had a phase 2, or some attack that changed how you fought it just enough to feel more fun. [/spoiler] The art is lovely as well, especially in the cinematics within the game. The game did more with it's story than I was expecting it too but it's still less of a focus for me as everything else. The game was overall pretty fun, it took me abt 25-30 hours to complete all acts minus the time I was afk which makes it pretty lengthy, I didn't feel like it was being repetitive or wasting my time most of the playthrough. I plan on playing some of the levels on reaper mode to see if anything changes. I enjoyed the game and If you want to play a good 2D stylish action game than you would probably enjoy it too.